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Ann
Landers
'says• • •
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is not
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normal
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R , Dear Ann Landers: I just
returned—from Poria,- 'where= 1--
visited
i.visited my cousin whom I had
not seen for several years. I got
the shock of my life when I Filet
her son. He is 15 years old _arid a
beautiful boy. You'll notice I
didn' say. "handsome," I said
bea tiful• This kid has shoulder
len th hair, nail polish and
makeup. When I first met him I
could have sworn he was a girl.
Since the clothes for both sexes
are alike these days (faded
hip -hugger jeans, , wild print
shirts„ beads, sandals, wide belts)
;it's hard to tell what's what.
The boy is a very sweet kid —
�i bright, and well spoken — and he
has ladylike manners. When his
„mother.and I were alone she told
me he had dressed up especially
for me - that he doesn't wear
makeup or nail polish to school.'
"And, she added, "I want to
make it clear that he is NOT a'
homosexual. He's a transvestite
- a normal male who does not
engage in sexual activity. He
to simply enjoys dressing like a
woman."
I'll send a check for' $20 to
yottr favorite charity, Ann, if
you.';say :there are' such:people
Cousin From Streator '
'Dear Cousin: Send a check to
the Illinois Chapter For
Retarded Children but make it
for $10. There ARE such people
-- and they are not necessarily
practicing homosexuals, but the
authorities whom I respect, do
not consider" "t'ransve'stites'
normal.
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Dear Ann Landers: My
husban s just returned to
work after s rgery and a lengthy
convalescence at home. His
condition waste not serious. He
' has hlid a complete recovery but
I am ready to' collapse: This Cs
why I'm writing.
Earl is a member of several,
fraternal and civic organizations
and we have a large family and
many friends. We were swamped
with company from the'.minute
Earl came home from the
hospital. I'm sure this slowed up
Earl's recovery, by several days.
' Naturally I had -to be dressed
for' company from the minute I
opened my eyes because we had
callers, even in the morning. 1
• ran a snack service around the
` clock and had to keep cleaning
up after each batch of visitors.
' Our food and drink bill for that
month was out of this world.
I appreciate ev' ryone's
concern but a card in the mail
_would have done just as well.
You have told people through
your column not to visit sick holes in his, Dingbats have a Way
-- friendsin the hospital: _Please- tett—
of
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them not• to visit sick' people at of finding each other and I'Min
n favor of it. When a crazy person
home, either,, Thank you.. ,
• Ex -Patient's Wife Who Is Now marries somebody normal, that's
a disaster. Remind Renee' and
Sick Googie. ' to make sure their
Dear Wife: My blanket rule is medical insurance is paid up and,
"Don't drop-in. Call first." This ,
would be a 'Soon to wives of wish em luck
convalescent patients: You could
'then -have' said; "So sores; Earl
must do nothing but rest until
'he goes back to, work."
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,` Dear Ann Landers: Your
prejudices are showing. Why dd
you have it in for the Dutch?
Recently you "told, a woman to
"talk to him like a Dutch
uncle." How is a Dutch uncle
different from a Jewish uncle?
You also told a teen-ager the
reason she was ,"in Dutch" was
because she placed so little value
on the truth': This suggests that
the Dutch have no integrity and
are always in = trouble. History
tells us otherwise.
The final insult was your
advice to i'rtiear stockings to a
reception "even though your
legs are beautifully tanned. A
bare leg looks' `Dutchy.' • "' Is it
,fair to label an entire ethnic
group, as, slobs with' no culture —
grubby and dirt poor? You owe
me an answer in the ,paper.
Pennsylvania Dutch and 'Proud
Of It
Dear Penn: The Dutch
grubby and dirt poor? You must
be out of your tujip-pickin'
nintd..1•The. xichest_w oman-in-the
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Torbnto`Tekgram 4odicate
as
Wilhelmina.
Dear Ann Landers: My .
husband's sister is 1eigh. years
older than I —33" to be exact — ,e`
.but she's an idiot. "Renee has ,
.been going. steady with Googie '.
for six months. Neither has ever
been - married. They have the
craziest relationship I ever heard
of. 'They play praeti al jokes on
each other—corny hings you
wouldn't believe—f r example, ,
lapel carnations that spurt water, '
plastic snakes under sofa pillows,
cigars that explode. One night he' ---
showed up in a fright wig and a °
tramp's outfit—to take her to a °•
formal dinner at' the country .
club.
• -�Then there's the, fighting and
the making up: .On Monday he
gives her a black eye and on.,
Tuesday he sends her a dozen
roses. Th'e . following week /She
brains him_ with a � key
wrench. Two days later they
take a kiss -and -,make-up trip" to
Lake Tahoe. Yesterday they
announced they .' are getting.
-married.._Ltold.her.,.L,.didn'-.t...thi,nk.•,,:
it would work because they fight
so much. She insists she' is crazy,
about the guy and the fighting
"doesn't mean anything." How `
can I help these two lunatics
. avoid a tragic mistake? Marriage
Would be . a disaster. Please
advise.—Troubled Waters
-Dear- T:W.: Keep out of it.
The rocks in her head match the
„H '•s ,.Always_ ap..,Py'
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pry
�ae n /•t".aF/"..
401 ,4
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-an filegro ire' descent, he is -a •sti>rrdy boy with beautiful ul i$
dark eyes and medium -brown 'skin. Ile has sparse dark
hair which 'is beginning ,,,J,p„. eurt311A, hiea1th is good, apart
fronii a tendency to colds.,
- Timmy is a cuddly, lovable, good-natured baby. His
foster mother says if. he iisn't smiling he's laughing. if he'
cries she knows something is rr ally distressing him. He's .a
good eater and he sleeps -well. Timmy isn't crawling yet,
.but ,he gets around with considerable speed by lying on his
tummy and pulling• himself along the floor with his arms.
Other' children ape a delight to Timmy and he is used
to being,yvith them. Young as he is, he'' learning to play
ball by•rolling it, yvith a pair of toddlers in his foster
home. ' '
-Timmy like jpe,uple .and has_neve'r been shy, though
he looks strange, s over for a minute or two before decid-
ing -to -be friendst
This baby needs -.parents who will appreciate a lively,
sunny -tempered young son. To inquire about adopting
T- rimy pleas"e'.write td T`c day's Child, Department of So-
ciAtong Family Services, Parliament Buildings, Toronto
L8 . For general adoption information, aslomyour Chil-
dren's Aid Society. °.
"PL1AEit
I-t'is duite an ardeat reading
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the headlines these days.
President Nixon's surcharge
has, thrown, the financial
world. into a panic bf sorts.
Telephone rates -are up and
rail fares are going up.
lrverybody and his brother
is either -on strike or threat-
ening to strike. More than
one out of every ten mem-
' bers of the work force 24
and under is jobless.
The government has
proved totally incapable .of
both halting inflation and
increasing employment.
Welfare costs are soaring.
Plants are shutting down. In
a boom or bust economic
cycle, we certainly don't
seem to be headed for a
boom,
A friend of mine who
came to Canada from• Ger-
many told me frankly, "In
the 1$ years Il have been in
Canada, for the first time 1
ani scared." -
John Bassett, financier,
wheeler-dealer, and im-
perious owner ° of the
TorontoTelegram, gave that
city a rude shock when he
announced brusquely that
the 95 -year-old paper would
cease publication because it
was losing large sums 'of
.money. And there went
1200 jobs,
That leaves • Toronto,
with a population creeping
up on the two -million mark,
:with ...only two papers_ OL,
,:ozrr arative.-._
L
Sial:'' A•n
n � .-.. ssS�rsC :vnanw
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ly has two dhlie:ts°'1'iere
something rotten 'in Den-
. mark? •
Now don't feel sorry for
Mr. Bassett. You won't find '
him on the welfare rolls for
a bit yet; even `though, the
Tely was losing over half •a
Million a year. • He owns •
Toro?lto Argonauts and ;has
extensive holdings in , an
audio-visual empire, plus
only he and Goff know what
else.
But 1 feel a little guilty
when 1 think of the Tele-
gram goingon the rocks. Un -
,til just over a year ago, the -
Telegram Syndicate dis-
tributed my column. Then 1
switched to another syndi-
cate. Is it possible that
merely one rat leaving can
sink a, ship? 1 he awake and
worry about this at nights.
For about 28 seconds.,
I find '• that the only way
to escape from this pall of
,gloom and doom is to con-
centrate on something just
as silly as the bickering,
whining, recalcitrant, salty,
exuberant human race,
One' of the silliest things
in the world is the English
language. But it's also fas-
cinating. • Especially the
slang, which changes almost
from day to day. I'm not
much interested in the
thousands of = new woods
added to the language every
year by r.ce, but 1 have•a
morbid intere4'.; in the abor-
tions 'that cree into daily
usage.
J.
GOPER Qj $IMA,( -S 4 Alt,' MP"c+ , P!4;t+„at:
Here's relief for tedious aces
chiropracter, want ^ 1to pull,
anyone's leg?
"You're' putting me.
down" means you are
squelching the speaker.
"You put me off' means
that the person addressed is
displeasing to you. , "Will
yojj put •tne up?" reams you
want a free place to sleep.
"You're always cutting
me up" means" that you are
criticising the speaker, •and
is a favourite among teen- ^.•---
*ers: "Cut me, off refers -
to anything from a conver-
sation to an allowance. "1
really cut -him down" means
that you reduced some-
body, either verbally or
physically, to your , own
pigmy proportions, and is
usually a prevarication. Or
even a lie.
The Yanks got in there
first with "wise". You take
a noun, add "wise" to it,
and you have a herma-
phrodyte. Can you see the'
tortured visage of- a foreign-
er, who has learned to speak
impecable English, having -to
cope ' with something like,
"Sales -wise, he's on the ball.,
Younger readers may ..
stop here. Their eiders,
those who . have a stomach
for it, may continue. For
example, you take a verb
such. -as ".to put",generally
.n Ylace
Theny4
u
YHrt"Y o 7ntani
9l7
.you have a whole nevi vo-
cabulary.
"You're putting me on.”
That really means;"You're
pulling my leg." Try to ex-
plain that to somebody
learning English. Why would #'
• anybody, except perhaps a
hat e7tperi ence-w se, he's: ,
just not with '
And 1 w$ndelr,414w' ,the
Depar.finent rofT;anaport
words its advertisements
when it is seeking ,the ser*
vices of keepers„ of light .
- houses, Who resPviti4s if the
ad' simply says; `"WANT,D
LIGHTHQUSEEEP»
E1,S"?
Is the , Departrnent,
swamped with, applications
from lazy 'w,onren who want
to db only 'tight housekeep-
ing, no scrubbing? Or does
it get buckets of mail from '
little, skinny' guys " who
don't mind a bit of house-
keeping on the side?
,.Fair boggles the mind.
Next time you're troubled
by the headlines, find sortie -
thing silly, and save your
sanity.
Remember ' ladies]
.5e1i 'c'' ill your:
meeting.
reports
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